11/7/22 Build Week Thread for 2023 MME's

[njb]

heard from Dealer that from MO it will come to Chicago Heights in IL and then from there it will come by road truck to Dealer. Expect a 2 wk delay from ETA 12/03.

Why are you to expect a 2 wk delay?

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[Deleted member 13372]

Mine is continuing on to LA. Below is FC just now:

I'm still hoping above all hope that I get to skip the KC mess. Have been tracking TTGX994017 with NS all weekend, which has given the following updates:

Fort Worth, TX 11/25 morning
Merkel, TX 11/26 10:07a
Sweetwater, TX 11/26 noon-ish
Roscoe, TX 11/26 12:19p
Morita, TX 11/26 2:00p
Chub, TX 11/26 4:41p
Monahans, TX 11/26 8:59p
Gozar, TX 11/27 12:29a
McNary, TX 11/27 4:59a
Tornillo, TX 11/27 8:05a
Fabens, TX 11/27 12:30p
Clint, TX 11/27 2:36p
Belen, TX, 11/27 3:26p
Alfalfa, TX, 11/27 4:03p
El Paso, TX, 11/27 4:09p
El Paso, Dallas St, TX, 11/27 5:11p
Lizard, NM, 11/27 5:40p
Deming, NM, 11/27 8:44p
Gage, NM, 11/27 9:19p
Lordsburg, NM, 11/27 10:06p
Olga, AZ, 11/27 11:06p
Wilmot, AZ, 11/28 3:07a
Naviska, AZ, 11/28 6:51a
Red Rock, AZ, 11/28 7:02a
Toltec, AZ, 11/28 7:35a
Maricopa, AZ, 11/28 8:11a
Bosque, AZ, 11/28 10:28a
Sentinel, AZ, 11/28 11:08a
Colfred, AZ, 11/28 12:14p

How do you get to the "NS Tracking"? I have a rail car # TTGX986438 and car is bound for CA.

It seems you have to be a dealer or shipper to be able to track, not for customers.

 

[mache2022_2023]

Some CA cars go through KC, like yours. Some not, like 23MachE above. Standard delays are a few days in Richards-Gebaur and a few days in Muncie. However, there have been cases of substantially longer delays, esp. to CA. KC is the linchpin. Once you get out of there, it’s more predictable, usually. But with a potential rail strike on 12/9, all bets are off. I‘d get your railcar # once it leaves Muncie (Union Pacific?). You may be able to track from there. Have you tried contacting your dealer for VVR or VINView? Good luck.

Thanks for the detailed update, I am sure even my dealer wont be able to give this info seems I am not in the lucky path and my order may have potential delay, but it's funny that Ford would have 2 routes for similar vehicles to be delivered to LA but I am logistics person. So the best I can hope is transit process keeps going smoothly and the Mache reaches the dealer as per estimate.

 

[23MachE]

How do you get to the "NS Tracking"? I have a rail car # TTGX986438 and car is bound for CA.

It seems you have to be a dealer or shipper to be able to track, not for customers.

If you click "TRACKERS" at the top of the page, it includes instructions for lots of tracking mechanisms. Copying the instructions for Norfolk Southern here.

NS Norfolk Southern
1. Call 800-635-5768
2. Press 2.
3. Press 2.
4. Enter the letters on the numeric keypad then press #. As in: TTGX will be 8849
5. Enter the numbers then press #. It wasn't taking my voice prompts but typing worked.

 

[snowdoggie]

Let's hope there is no rail strike this week

 

[LaFong]

Thanks for the detailed update, I am sure even my dealer wont be able to give this info seems I am not in the lucky path and my order may have potential delay, but it's funny that Ford would have 2 routes for similar vehicles to be delivered to LA but I am logistics person. So the best I can hope is transit process keeps going smoothly and the Mache reaches the dealer as per estimate.

FC may be able to get the railcar #, it’s just that they lag and are sometimes uncooperative. I'd keep contacting them. The TTGX railcars are pooled cars, I believe. Those railcars can be used by multiple railways. The KCS cars are not pooled, so they must be offloaded and reloaded onto UP cars (in my case). The logistics through KC are definitely inefficient.

 

[Deleted member 13372]

If you click "TRACKERS" at the top of the page, it includes instructions for lots of tracking mechanisms. Copying the instructions for Norfolk Southern here.

I was just able to do exactly that, thanks! However, the system has a status date of 9/22/22 somewhere in Illinois. I have confirmed the rail car # multiple times, don't see how that status is possible, like it never actually made a trip from Mexico to Laredo. My car has fallen into a black hole, and it's just baffling that Ford has no actual ability to track its cars.

 

[gryphon]

I was just able to do exactly that, thanks! However, the system has a status date of 9/22/22 somewhere in Illinois. I have confirmed the rail car # multiple times, don't see how that status is possible, like it never actually made a trip from Mexico to Laredo. My car has fallen into a black hole, and it's just baffling that Ford has no actual ability to track its cars.

They do, any Ford dealer can utilize the VinView program to track any VIN with geographic precision if they so choose. Why some will not do that for their customers is what is truly baffling to me.

 

[snowdoggie]

FC: The vehicle has Arrived Rail - Railcar # AOK 501821 (Kansas City Southern Railway Co ) in Internati, MO on November 27, 2020.
The ETA to the dealership is December 8-14. You can also always check the status of your vehicle by the VIN and order number online at https://shop.ford.com/vehicleordertracking.

So I am assuming it is being unloaded and loaded to UP and if I chat in a few days I would have a UP #. Seems it is still on schedule

 

[astrorob]

rail strike wise, here are some tweets/stories:







https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/28/rail-strike-biden-congress/

and also, some cars which are scheduled to be picked up from the Richmond, CA train depot belong to the following build weeks:

10/10
10/3
8/15 (!!)

don't know when they might actually arrive at richmond, or if they already have. last actual deliveries were 11/22 - things have been idle for a while.

 

[NiceandSimpleMache]

 

[LaFong]

I was just able to do exactly that, thanks! However, the system has a status date of 9/22/22 somewhere in Illinois. I have confirmed the rail car # multiple times, don't see how that status is possible, like it never actually made a trip from Mexico to Laredo. My car has fallen into a black hole, and it's just baffling that Ford has no actual ability to track its cars.

It could be going via BNSF, https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...hern-santa-fe-rail-tracking.15402/post-368266

 

[BitVenom]

Dealer (just now) said mine's in Richards-gebaur, MO - Ramp 6, and likely done with Rails for now, it'll be here in ~2 weeks via truck. So - hopefully the looming strike has no impact on me.

 

[Mini166]

rail strike wise, here are some tweets/stories:







https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/28/rail-strike-biden-congress/

and also, some cars which are scheduled to be picked up from the Richmond, CA train depot belong to the following build weeks:

10/10
10/3
8/15 (!!)

don't know when they might actually arrive at richmond, or if they already have. last actual deliveries were 11/22 - things have been idle for a while.

Do we know if any actual 2023 MME's have been delivered and hit the road? Any sightings out there? Just curious. A friend told me she thought she saw a blue one like the color I've described to her (Vapor), which I ordered. She may have seen a '21 Infinity Blue, though.

 

[gryphon]

Do we know if any actual 2023 MME's have been delivered and hit the road? Any sightings out there? Just curious. A friend told me she thought she saw a blue one like the color I've described to her (Vapor), which I ordered. She may have seen a '21 Infinity Blue, though.

No '23s from owners active on this forum have been delivered as of yet. Obviously, since not everyone who ordered a '23 is on this forum, there is no way to be 100% sure. There were, of course, Vapor Blue cars in the wild during the proving phase this past year, photos of which are on this forum.

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